By Steven I. Apfelbaum
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A. Land perennially dry or moist but never inundated with standing water, always elevated or level and well drained. Plants erect and supporting themselves or growing intertwined with other upright plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. b. Land inundated with water at least seasonally; soil saturated at least part of the year; plants are floating, submerged, or shallowly rooted in substrates, often unable to support themselves in an upright growth form, without the buoyancy of water .
Former agricultural land (oldfield). b. Topsoil typically 6–12 inches deep, primarily black in color. Scattered large oaks with dense understory of introduced shrubs, such as European buckthorn and Tartarian honeysuckle, and invasive herbaceous plants such garlic mustard. Understory tree species different from overstory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . degraded oak savanna. 12 Step 1. 2. Continued 7. a. Water primarily open year round, with a sandy or gravel beach downwind of the prevailing wind direction .
6. 4. a. Agricultural land; herbaceous plants in noticeable rows, or harvested for forage, or pastured . . . . . . . . . . . . annual or perennial cultivated or harvested grasslands. b. Grassland or herbaceous oldfields not recently planted or harvested, but may be seasonally pastured by grazing livestock . . . . . perennial nonharvested, or pastured grasslands. 5. a. Topsoil < 6 inches, brown (seldom black); fallen trees in various states of decomposition. Often, tree-sapling layer is of mixed species, including shade-tolerant oaks, maples, and ash of various size classes .